CHAPTER 12  

CHAPTER 12

The finally awaited day had come and he decided to leave for war. He decided to let Henry come with him. It did not matter as all his things were in his space and the land was sealed from others. He did not have to care about the castle as he did not have to worry about someone taking the castle away. He decided to leave some older knights and younger ones here as they were too old to fight and too young to be in the war. Roger let some better knight follow him who were better at commanding. Roger had learnt from them and he knew who was the better one. He had much higher thinking capacity that was second only to innate beings.

Roger looked at the soldiers who were ready to move. He had showed off his power to keep the items in his space and had let all his people believe that he was a god sent person. He did not want to be targeted by the church to be burned at the stake. They were not strong enough but the pedantic humans were led by the shepherd and the church led them properly.

Roger rode the horse and so did the knights. He thought about speeding up and sped him and all his people. He had let his people understand that he had shared his power with them temporarily but they were nothing more than items who were sped up. It would have been better if he had the power to reduce the speed of others too but it was indeed a sad thing that he did not have it.

Roger decided to let them move fast and the soldiers and others were happy and surprised at the new unfound power. They really had the fear of Roger as they knew that Roger was much stronger than they knew off. Roger decided to reach the land. Although the time taken was less than an hour from the outsider point of view, he really had and the soldiers had to move for more than three days. The speeding up had made them have no limit to stamina temporarily and they were not tired. Roger gave them a lot of tents and asked them to build the tent. Roger also asked the peasants he bought as they were bought to work for him. He let them create a bigger toilet at the side as they had to wait for a long period of time. He took a lot of food and juice and gave it to them. It would be better to let them have the feast as although their body and spirit would not be tired, their consciousness was not developed to have such continuous amount of work.

Roger waited for some time and henry came to him and looked at the army. He really had not experience such things. Henry asked Roger, "What are you doing by showing off the power?"

Roger asked, "What does it matter to the world that I wants to rule the world? Either way I will rule them. If they are pedantic, it would be better to have them die during the war to conquer the world. Prepare yourself mentally. I will take over this world as the lone king."

Henry said, " Yes, your majesty."

Roger looked at him happily as he knew that at least one person has accepted him as his king. He looked at Henry and said, "Try to learn more about politics and try to talk to other nobles. I need you to manage the kingdom under me."

Henry said, "I can manage the army my lord. I cannot manage the country."

Roger said, "I believe you. Introduce who you think is right. I will let them be under me."

Henry said, "I will try but I have no such acquaintance. Your majesty, I think I should stay away from such things. The creed of knights is to never come try to involve in politics."

Roger said, "You will be one of my generals and I will be giving you my power to speed up of type 2 up to 10 times. This world is too big for normal people to fight. You better be ready for a long life. I will let your children become nobles if you cannot due to your belief."

Henry said, "Would it be too dangerous to let others have the power?"

Roger said, "No one can stand against me. Even without speeding up I am strong enough to take on the army. With speeding up I can make the world come under me. Sooner or later in my other lives the people should be able to understand something about my power. It would be problematic to learn then as there may be methods to target me. If it is a magical world where I can become stronger than it would be interesting as I will be stronger. But I may not be invincible. The problem will be if I may be in a normal technological world. I may not be against them but the nuclear bombs may not kill me in a single shot. The problem remains if I am in an interstellar society without much status, it will be nearly impossible to rise as the methods of becoming stronger will depend on the technical resources of the smartest. It is hard."

Henry said, "Are there other worlds?"

Roger said, "There are many worlds and many of them are not even inhabited by humans. It will be hard to fight against them."

Henry asked, "Will they come to this world?"

Roger said, "Most likely not but nothing is absolute. We need to prepare for the war."

Henry said, "Yes sir/"

Roger could only hope that the gods were not bored enough to play with him. If even the words of the gods cannot be believed it would be better not to follow their plans. Roger was really in doubt. The world paused and his body was in the court of reincarnation. The god of teaching said, "We have no interest in having fun with the weak. If we wanted, we will be doing it ourselves. We disdain to live. You don't need to worry about it."

Roger looked at him and asked, "Why do you do so?"

The god of teaching said, "There were many among us who lived through many worlds. We find it boring to live and try to live in many manners. Although there are many who likes to make others suffer but if they do not know that they are the ones who made the weak suffer, they will not like it. We live in present and if the mortals cannot understand that we are playing with them, it is just like seeing a sad movie. You don't have to worry. Also, we hate those gods who reincarnate with shitty powers and nerf the reborn people. They make them do not understand the basic truth about the priests that they should always remain above the mortals. We will make sure that you have enough potential to become strong, enough understanding about the world view and the limit of the world and the chance to rise to the top or show off your might to the world or just exist as the strong. If one day you lose the reason of the priest, idealism of personal strength, the heart of the strong and the disdain for the worlds and the rules you will be forced to retire and let you go to another world and let you live as you like. So, you don't have to worry."

Roger said, "Fair enough."

The god of teaching said, "You don't have to worry much and do as you like. As long as you do not curse us with your mouth you have the absolute right to have any thought about yourself. You just have to live your own life. We will not restrict you in any manner. The rules we made for you is to let you maintain the dignity of the priest. You just have to live by yourself. The zeroth rule above all rule is to let all rules be forgotten."

Roger asked, "So I can break the rule."

The god of teaching said, "You can. You will be forcibly made to retire."

Roger said, "Okay."

The god of teaching said, "You can leave."

Roger found that he had returned to the world and he went and lay down on his tent. He really was sad to be a weak person but at least he was a priest and much higher than the mortals. At least he had broken through the stage of a true conscious being. Roger decided to drink some wine and eat a lot of food to have some respite from his problem.

Roger kept drinking the meadow wine and the chicken. He kept eating the food and the peasants around him were eating the food. He really could not accept that he was weak. He decided that since he cannot defeat the gods, he will make sure that there is no one who can stand against him and he will stand above them. Roger kept eating the food and drank the wine. He saw that many of the soldiers were dancing around in a circle and scoffed. They really did not know nothing about music. Roger took the trumpet he had made. He always liked the trumpet and had learnt how to make it from his previous world. He always wanted to travel to other worlds as he was tired of his original life and had learnt to make a trumpet. Roger kept playing a playful music as it was the only thing that could soothe his heart.

The soldiers stopped and listened to the new style of song. They liked the song and danced to the tune. Roger laughed and threw many silver coins around. The soldiers were happy and so was he.